Laura Beth Nielsen
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Associate Professor Department of Sociology Areas of Interest: Sociology of Law, Inequality, Gender, and Race
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Laura Beth Nielsen is a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and an assistant professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program (Ph.D. 1999) and Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D. 1996). Her primary field is the sociology of law, with particular interests in legal consciousness and the relationship between law and inequalities of race, gender, and class. Her book, License to Harass: Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech (Princeton University Press, 2004) (winner of the Law & Society Association dissertation prize, 2000) studies hate speech, targets' reactions and responses to it, and their attitudes about using law to deal with such speech. She has served on the Law & Society Association's Board of Trustees (2001-2004) and as the Program Chair for LSA's annual meeting (2004); she is on the council of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association, and served as an editor of Law & Social Inquiry for five years.
Selected publications include: New Civil Rights Research: A Constitutive Approach, (Ben Fleury-Steiner and Laura Beth Nielsen eds., Dartmouth/Ashgate Press, 2006); Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities, (Laura Beth Nielsen and Robert L. Nelson, eds., Springer 2005); Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Rights, (Laura Beth Nielsen ed., forthcoming, Ashgate, 2007); Catherine Albiston and Laura Beth Nielsen, “The Procedural Attack on Civil Rights: The Empirical Reality of Buckhannon for Public Interest Litigation,” (forthcoming, UCLA Law Review, 2007); Laura Beth Nielsen and Catherine R. Albiston, “The Organizational Environment of Public Interest Law 1975 – 2000,” 84 University of North Carolina Law Review 1592 – 1621 (2006); “Rights Realized? An Empirical Analysis of Employment Discrimination Litigation as a Claiming System,” 2005 Wisconsin Law Review 637 (2005) (with Robert L. Nelson); “Media Misrepresentation: Title VII, Print Media, and Public Perceptions of Discrimination Litigation,” 15 Stanford Law & Policy Review 101 – 130 (2004) (with Aaron Beim); “Situating Legal Consciousness: Experiences and Attitudes of Ordinary Citizens About Law and Street Harassment,” 34 Law & Society Review (2000) (winner, LSA article prize, 2002); “Cops, Counsel and Entrepreneurs: Constructing the Role of Inside Counsel in Large Corporations,” 34 Law & Society Review 457 (2000) (with Robert L. Nelson); and “Welfare Queens and Other Fairy Tales: Welfare Reform and Unconstitutional Reproductive Controls,” 38 Howard Law Journal 473 (1995) (with Catherine R. Albiston); “Paying Workers or Paying Lawyers: Employee Termination in the United States and Canada,” 21 Law and Policy 247 (1999) (winner, outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, LSA).
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